A mate's sister lives in the outback somewhere near Perth. I don't know how often they do this but when his parents were there last time, the pest controller came round to spray the eaves of the house to get rid of the creepy crawlies. Next day apparently the verandah was covered in dead spiders th...

Into my second week of a 10 week run training program for the Sydney City 2 Surf (Target is the 14 km race in sub 60 mins). Running 5 days per week with 2 days of intervals/speed work. Having to do a good session of run related yoga stretches every day just to prevent locking up, running in your 40'...

Subaru - 4
Hilux - 4
Daytona - 4
2 x lawn mowers - 2
Line trimmer - 1
Chainsaw - 1
High pressure water blaster - 1
Fire pump - 1

18... I feel I need to buy some more motors!!

Looking through the jobs list as I'm now under 45 days consultation for redundancy, difficult decision to have to make with nearly 20 years service! Good luck mate, Having experienced this myself just on a year and a half ago (for the second time mind you!) I know it can be a stressful time. 20 yrs...

My last night shift!! Yea-fooking-hoo!!

Was up at 5pm this evening, and next time I see a bed, it'll be my own and I would have been up for 30 hrs. Just have 1 helicopter ride, 2 plane flights and a 1.5 hr taxi ride to get thru' to get there.

I've got coppers either side of me. One side the wife does undercover Liqour Licencing and they have been there the whole time we have. Their kids live at our house thru' the weekends running amok with my kids. Other side neighbours have only been there since Oct, but are really good too. They have ...

Interesting articl here in What Car magazine. http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/new-e10-fuel-will-cost-uk-motorists/1229022 Interesting that. There is loads of E10 already in France but it's next to normal 95 and super 98 not a replacement. Thats how it is here too Cookie, it replaced 91RON as the ec...

Cause they don't want that crap anywhere near there quality machinery! Just feed that beauty the good stuff mate (nod) You got any spare ? :D I've only tried 95 Ron, need to try a tank of 98 next.... I'm out of the Oil Refinery now Cookiemonster, but if you can work out how to run it on Natural Gas...

So its not added to higher RON petrol? AKA SuperPus? Ok thats in my bike now. Car is Diesel. Problem over for me :) Not normally dude, in Oz it's only in the 91 RON at 10% blend (E10). My new car has massive warnings not to use ethanol added fuels and that's a new car FFS. Bad idea all round :( Cau...

They probably want every house to have one beacuse of the piss poor range of most electric cars it's the only way to make them viable!

Yup, yup, and yup.... This topic grates me to no end, after 7 yrs of Refinery Operations experience I can tell you we hated the crap, it's a dangerous solvent, and required a special foam agent to fight fires involving ethanol as it breaks down the regular stuff. Australia has been adding it for yea...

Fridays out here offshore are 'fish n chips' Fridays, so works in with the theme and the best thing about today's one is my last for this swing! Outta here on wednesday!

and as I'm on nigfht shifts I technically had fish n chips for breakfast

Good luck for the big day Cavetroll!! Just try to enjoy it, no need for it to be a stressful day.

bloke at my old work bought one, I had a go, insanely hard to operate. He finally got pretty good at it, but it took him many many wasted hours.

jlawie wrote:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CB900C

Not many people know they even exist to be fair!

Thats quite an interesting read.. cheers mate!

Itchy wrote: a rag and 2 minutes of rubbing.

Much like my sex life then, really.

best line I've read all night!

Stew wrote: , until the next shed calamity anyway

A man after my own heart, I've been away from the forum for a while Stew but as Monty will attest, that story is usually my form!

My nick name at one job was actually "Calamity"....

My work offer a salary sacrifice scheme, enabling you to esentially buy a company car. As one of ours is beginning to tire I thought I'd look into it, but I really can't see the benefit. I thought I'd look into buying a nice estate or small 4x4 that could pull the caravan. So looked at things like ...

Off subject slightly but IMO to many people want stuff in a hurry these days and think the never never is a quick and easy solution, it isn't it’s an expensive one IMO. I totally agree Blade. Last break home we upgraded our TV, old one was an 8 yr old cheap brand SD plasma that the screen finally w...

Thats starting to look mean as! Looking forward to follow this custom build!